Hi Sven, On Friday 16 of March 2012 05:05:33 you wrote: > Hi list, > > I am in the process of migrating an embedded project from > ext2 to nilfs2 and have a problem with nilfs_cleanerd. It > does not start on mount and I cannot start it manually. > (...) I'd suspect futex() or open(..., O_RDWR|O_NOFOLLOW). Do you have `CONFIG_FUTEX' enabled in your embedded kernel? Relevant snippet from strace of my nilfs_cleanerd (version nilfs- utils-2.0.23): 864 open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY) = 5 864 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 864 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f551032d000 864 read(5, "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0\n/dev/root"..., 1024) = 480 864 readlink("/dev", 0x7fffff54d630, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 864 readlink("/dev/root", "sda3", 4096) = 4 864 readlink("/dev/sda3", 0x7fffff54d630, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 864 readlink("/dev", 0x7fffff54d630, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 864 readlink("/dev/sdb3", 0x7fffff54d630, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 864 close(5) = 0 864 munmap(0x7f551032d000, 4096) = 0 864 open("/home", O_RDONLY) = 5 864 stat("/dev/sdb3", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(8, 19), ...}) = 0 864 statfs("/dev/shm", {f_type=0x1021994, f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=86016, f_bfree=86010, f_bavail=86010, f_files=754077, f_ffree=754075, f_fsid={0, 0}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096} ) = 0 864 futex(0x7f551010d31c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 864 open("/dev/shm/sem.nilfs-cleaner-2067", O_RDWR|O_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 864 lstat("/dev/shm/sem.qLTneb", 0x7fffff54fb70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 864 open("/dev/shm/sem.qLTneb", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0700) = 6 Btw., you may not be seeing the failed (with `Function not implemented') syscall in strace, if the libc itself signals the `Function not implemented' error instead of issuing the syscall. Consider using ``ltrace'' instead, to intercept all lib calls. Cheers, -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] Already many of the mutants disguised as human beings are walking the streets of Earth's cities. -- Music Instructor, ``Electro City'' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html